NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site:
Human Communication in a Connected World

Important information

• USC/ISI shuttle
• Calendar of events (agenda option gives you summary at a glance)
• Shared Google drive folder
• REU meeting link - cohort and meeting schedule
• REU meeting link - interviews
• REU areas - meetings and resources
• RCR training
• Surveys for the first day: one and two
• Research questions:
  1. What problem am I trying to solve? Why is this problem important? Why is solving it difficult?
  2. What has been done before (to solve that same problem, to solve related problems that I can leverage)? How do I compare to other efforts to solve that same problem - is my solution better and how?
  3. What is my solution (high level intuition)? What are the details that I have to decide (thresholds, design flow, etc)? How can I reason about these decisions?
  4. What data can I use to test my solution? Do I have enough data? Is there noise? Do I understand ground truth? Can I generate synthetic data?
  5. What is my desired outcome at the end of the program? What is the smallest unit of work that I can complete to feel I've made progress on solving this problem?
• Poster template is here.

Publication opportunities

• REU Symposium at IEEE Big Data - submissions Oct 1, topics: data science, systems, security
• REU Networking and Systems Workshop - submissions July 31, topics: networks, systems, security
• ACSAC - submissions Nov 7, work in progress/posters, topics: security
• Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation & Personalization (SMAP) - submissions July 30, topics: social data mining